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A federal appeals court on Thursday revived a child sexual-exploitation lawsuit filed by the man who was pictured naked at 4 months old on the cover of Nirvana’s 1991 album “Nevermind.” The lawsuit by Spencer Elden, now a 32-year-old artist, against the grunge rock hitmakers alleges that he has suffered “permanent harm” as the band and others profited from the album cover. The photograph shows him naked underwater in a swimming pool, appearing to reach for a dollar bill on a fish hook.The suit alleges that the image…

The former assistant who claims Marilyn Manson sexually assaulted her, whipped her and threw her against a wall during a drug-induced rage won a critical appeal ruling Wednesday that revives her previously dismissed lawsuit against the shock rocker. Ashley Walters initially sued Manson, whose legal name is Brian Warner, with claims of sexual assault, sexual harassment, and sex discrimination in May 2021. She argued that while the alleged abuse took place during a “horrific” year of employment that ended in 2011,…

At first glance, nematodes are unassuming roundworms—but don’t underestimate them. In 2018 scientists announced they had discovered and revived two types of microscopic nematodes found in the Siberian permafrost, estimating they may have been 42,000 years old. Now these roundworms are the subject of more research, which posits that one of these nematode varieties represents a new species, dubbed Panagrolaimus kolymaensis for the Kolyma River where they were found. The new research, published on July 27 in the journal…

Richard Dickson, president and chief operating officer at the toymaker, is taking over as Gap’s next chief executive. Richard Dickson, president and chief operating officer at the toymaker, is taking over as Gap’s next chief executive. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to…

The servers for classic Call of Duty Black Ops 1, 2, and Modern Warfare 3 have been revived and fans are as pleased to be back in the midst of some of the most beloved entries in the series. Though Activision didn’t announce that the servers would be brought back online, players swarmed to the games, surging the Black Ops 1 player count to 123,952 according to Twitter user IdleSloth. Black Ops 2 recorded a significant rise to 11,500 players and Modern Warfare 3 saw almost 80,000 players arrive on the scene. (FYI) The…

This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here. As regular readers will know, I tend to start each edition of this newsletter by telling you all about a topic that’s been on my mind—whether it’s a big news story, a fascinating trend, or just something cool I happened to hear about in my reporting. This week is a bit different. It’s my last Checkup for a while. In a matter…

Apologies in advance to anyone of a certain generation who immediately falls to their knees and cries out in despair when they hear this, but today marks exactly 20 years since Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl sailed into theaters on July 9, 2003. Yep, it really has been that long since Johnny Depp stole our hearts as Captain Jack Sparrow, the instant cinematic icon etched into pop culture forevermore that landed the star the first Academy Award nomination of his career and launched both a…

In arid southeastern California, just across the border from Nevada, sits the only large-scale rare-earth element mine in the Western Hemisphere. Here at Mountain Pass, rocks are dug out of a 600-foot pit in the ground, crushed, and liquified into a concentrated soup of metals that are essential for the magnets inside consumer electronics, wind turbines, and electric vehicles, or EVs.What Is Carbon Capture? With Gizmodo’s Molly Taft | TechmodoToday, that metallic soup is shipped to China, where individual rare earths are…

“Be it in the era of LP (long playing phonograph) records, then Binaca Geetmala (popular radio countdown), audio cassettes, CDs, or now streaming platforms, this has been the top performing song for the company," says Vikram Mehra, managing director of Saregama. From Mehra’s succinct quote, we get to learn how far this music company has traversed through various formats since its first recording in 1901. We also learn that some things don’t change. Like Lag Ja Gale, which continues to…

Patients with a type of liver cancer known as hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) often face an anxious wait after their tumor is removed. In up to half of these people, the cancer will return within 2 years after surgery or a treatment that destroys their tumors with heat. Researchers haven’t identified any therapies that can stop it from coming back. That could change thanks to a class of drugs once seen as a failed revolution in cancer therapy. Angiogenesis…